From: Tom C
I agree. I don't think there's a really good solution... the best I
can think of is one that provides for severe penalties to judges,
prosecutors, police, and witnesses if it is found that someone was
wrongly convicted or unjustly punished because of their participatory
acts. Something like, they receive the punishment the accused would
have/did receive.
Objectivity needs to be enforced.
I think the U.S. "justice system" boils down to what's been said about
democracy itself as a form of government:
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others
that have been tried." W. Churchill.
It does seem to me, there is more constraint on police and prosecutorial
misconduct here in the states than there is in Canada, Britain and other
Commonwealth nations deriving their court systems from those in England
... the previous administration in Washington notwithstanding.
Ultimately, I think our governments, state and federal, have less power
to conceal wrongdoing over an extended period than is available to
governments elsewhere.
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